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May fly or grey drake, as may be thought best, 

 used for the stretcher. Should the fish, however, 

 be glutted with their large ephemeral prey, we 

 recommend the use of a full-dressed red or blue 

 palmer for the stretcher, with a blue dun or a 

 partridge hackle (hook, No. 4.) for the dropper. 

 Dapping with the natural May fly is a destructive 

 method of angling, and where that insect is not 

 bred, any large fly, or a grasshopper, may be sub- 

 stituted for it. Dapping, however, can only be 

 practised in woody rivers, and it is not, after all, 

 so artistical nor so purely sportsmanlike a method 

 as fishing with the artificial fly. 



Evening fishing often affords delightful sport ; 

 you frequently get hold of some lusty fish, and 

 even if you are not so successful, the delightful- 

 ness of a walk on the green turf, after the heat 

 and fatigue of a long summer's day, to 



where streamlets fall 



With mingled bubblings and a gentle rush,'* 



presents, in itself, no trifling recommendation. 

 It is next to useless, unless in a cloudy evening, 

 to commence fishing till within half an hour 

 before sunset ; and you may continue as long as 

 you find it likely to be of service. In the height 



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